Oops-Maryland man killed while testing bulletproof vest

[malaise]

http://news.yahoo.com/maryland-man-killed-while-testing-bulletproof-vest-190509854.html
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A Maryland man faced murder charges on Friday after accidentally shooting his friend while testing out a bulletproof vest, a shooting reportedly recorded on a video camera.

Baltimore police arrested Mark Ramiro, 30, after he fatally shot Darnell Mitchell, 28, late on Wednesday.

The Baltimore Sun reported on Friday the shooting was recorded on a video camera by a third person.

In that video, Mitchell brags that he is about to take a “deuce deuce in the chest” - a shot from a .22-caliber bullet - before Ramiro, who is seen standing in front of Mitchell, fired the handgun once. He struck Mitchell just above the vest, the newspaper said.

Police would not comment on specific evidence.
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Which word comes to mind first here - jackasses!

[safeinOhio]

1. Here,

hold my beer and watch this.

[malaise]

18. Bet he didn't finish the beer

[ChisolmTrailDem]

22. Hey'all, watch-iss! nt

[packman]

2. Murder or just plain stupidity

Wonder if he'll plead dumbness. Seems as if Mitchell gave him permission to shoot him but didn't realize until the last minosecond, "Hey, maybe this is a dumb idea".

[nomorenomore08]

4. Probably plead down to manslaughter. Either way he's facing some pretty heavy time. n/t

[Iggo]

11. Or? I'm okay with And.

[Kaleva]

3. Article doesn't say but I strongly suspect that a lot of alcohol was involved.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. Or, the "Worldstar instant fame effect" eom.

[Kaleva]

10. Now he's a Darwin Award recipient.

[JohLast]

32. I was thinking of that

[BB1]

6. This should be a candidate for a Darwin Award.

Pffffft.

[SoCalDem]

7. Is there a crime called stupidly accidental homicide?

[LisaL]

9. Wasn't exactly accidental. The guy was shot quite on purpose.

Except the vest was supposed to have saved him. Of course if the shooter misses the vest, then the vest can't work.

[Kaleva]

12. And there's no such thing as a bullet proof vest.

"bullet resistant" is a more accurate term.

Edit: and no vest is going to stop any bullet that hits the body outside the area the vest covers.

[GeorgeGist]

17. You must be a hoot at parties.

[BainsBane]

8. It really is hard to fathom how stupid some of these people are

Unless it's all a ruse and he intended to murder the guy. Could be.

[Kaleva]

13. Or, according to RT, the victim was dead days before the shooting.

[BainsBane]

15. :)

[upaloopa]

14. The term gun nut comes to mind.

Now does the shooter retain his good guy with a gun status in this case? After all he was just stupid not violent.

[madinmaryland]

16. IT WAS NOT ME!!!!

[BrotherIvan]

19. Testing out the toys!

Guns don't kill people! Stupid fucking people with guns kill people.

[The Magistrate]

39. But Guns Help, Sir, Surely....

[The Magistrate]

41. You A Funny Little Fella, Sir....

So, if you were going into a fight, and law was not a concern, would you rather go in with a gun in hand, a knife, or empty hands?

[The Magistrate]

43. Not Really A Straight Answer, Sir

Any fight, even the most ordinary, can get out of hand. But your answer was plain enough; you consider possession of a gun greatly adds to your chances of prevailing in a fight, since you would, in situations you deem most important, prefer to have a gun in your hand. So your opening gambit, the 'People kill people. They don't need a gun to do it' line, is tactics, not true position. It is not something you really mean seriously, rather it is something you say in the belief it might gain you some advantage, and lays groundwork for a claim that even restricting gun purchases or ownership would not really have any impact, because 'people don't need a gun to kill'. But you are quite aware possessing a gun makes it a good deal easier to kill.

[The Magistrate]

46. From Which End, Sir?

You make a lot of assumptions for a stranger....

Your opening bid was this: "People kill people. They don't need a gun to do it."

You have acknowledged that people do kill a good deal more easily, a good deal more readily, a good deal more reliably, with a gun than without a gun.

Which makes your opening "People kill people. They don't need a gun to do it" seem a rather silly thing for you to say, since it is not really your true position.

[BrotherIvan]

51. Haha!

I missed your exchange with I assume was a MIRT removal. Using logic with a gunner works as well as with a fundamentalist: not at all. They will not admit that guns kill people, that they are even dangerous. They will dance and dance around that sentence because they know that from that, all else follows. It makes a logical person's brain hurt.

[Historic NY]

20. Darwin winner, and Darwin loser....

one gets death the other gets life.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. Darwin is the first word that came to my mind. nt

[newfie11]

23. First make sure they know how to aim

Missing the vest is

[Wounded Bear]

24. I would first make sure...

that the vest was on a store mannequin, and not a dummy.

[immoderate]

28. Yeah. Why test it unless there's a chance it would fail?

Of course it sounds like these boys were absolutely sure they knew what they were doing.

--imm

[malaise]

26. I wonder who else will faciltate the test

[TheCowsCameHome]

25. Consumer tip: If in doubt, always order extra tall size.

n/t

[malaise]

27. ROFL

or make sure your friend can shoot

[PoliticAverse]

29. Whenever you 'test' something you really need to prepare for the possibility of a failure. n/t

[cpwm17]

30. That's a pretty steep price for a mistake

a very stupid mistake at that. Now two lives are ruined. It's sad for them and their families.

[JEFF9K]

31. Next design - turtleneck vest.

[spin]

33. He should have tested the vest by shooting himself. The founder of Second Chance ...

used to do this to demonstrate how well his bullet proof vests worked.

[malaise]

34. Choking with laughter

Too good

[spin]

35. It's definitely not the smartest thing to do. (n/t)

[Aristus]

36. Bravo!

He successfully discovered that the bullet-proof vest he was wearing was not so bullet-proof. He would be so proud if he wasn't so dead.

Back to the drawing board, boys. This design? Not so hot...

[jmowreader]

37. This design might be just fine, sir

His buddy shot him ABOVE the vest. Armor plates don't stop bullets that don't hit the plate.

[sendero]

50. Folks should READ..

... this was just a .22. Had it actually hit the vest, odds are 99.999% the vest would have stopped it.

The thing that people often don't get is that handguns are not very accurate with respect to aim. Having a very short barrel means that even at what would seem to be close range, it is very easy to miss. This guy just missed the vest by a tiny amount. That was all it took.

The folks playing this dumbass game just didn't think it through.

[Savannahmann]

44. My favorite idiot in these circumstances.

He was surprised that it hurt to get shot.

But, as a defense. The surviving idiot may want to have his lawyer pull all of the vest videos from Youtube and show what they were trying to do.

Italian vest test.

Fools with guns and vests. Language NSFW

So the action is not unusual, and the result isn't either.

I doubt that you can get a murder charge to fly past the jury. Not when there are so many examples of people doing just this on the net.

[malaise]

49. How dumb are human beings

This is news to me